What Made Bridge to Terabithia a Success?

I just finished reading Bridge to Terabithia. Someone had left a copy of it in our Little Free Library and it was on my list of children’s books to read and research as a writer.

I got the audiobook version on Overdrive and listened to the book while doing chores around the house. At the end of the audiobook there was a short interview with the author, Katherine Paterson, and her son David Paterson.

The book was written for (about) her son whose best friend died when he was only a boy. The st...